Today Carrie was standing at my parents’ coffee table, and noticed the delicious-looking cordless phone on their end table. Instead of getting down and crawling over, she took 5 steps to get there, and didn’t fall down at the end! She’d strung a couple of steps together before, but only towards a waiting parent and with tons of encouragement, and it was more like a long forward fall. This was the first time she walked with an independent destination in mind.
It’s really funny that she chose today to officially start walking, because Denis and I had a bet going: he thought Carrie would walk around September 1st, I thought she’d walk around August 1st. Now we both win! (It was our standard bet: the loser has to give the winner two kisses.)